The Works of Henry Mackenzie

Collected Works

Henry Mackenzie was one of the luminaries of the second phase of the Scottish
Englightenment, and the exponent and arbiter of the sentimental taste in
literature which swept Europe in the final quarter of the eighteenth century.
His novel in fragments The Man of Feeling \[1771] was a hugely
influential experiment in structure and in tone - its vogue inspired major
literature from Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther to the lyrics
of Robert Burns (who declared that he prized the work 'next to the Bible'). Two
further novels, The Man of the World (1773) and Julia de
Roubigne (1777), completed Mackenzie's trilogy of Sensibility.
Mackzenzie was equally well known to his contemporaries for his editorship of
the periodical essays The Mirror (1779) and The Lounger
(1785-6); the latter contains his celebrated discovery for a genteel audience of
the poetry of Burns. Most of Mackenzie's work has not been available since the
original collected editio n of 1808. The present facsimile collection makes the
central literature of sensibility accessible for reassessment, as well as
providing access to the critical writings of one of the major transitional
writers of Enlightenment and Romantic Scotland.

Table of Contents

Man of Feeling Man of the World Julia de
Roubigne; Papers from the Mirror Papers from the Lounger Life of Dr
Blacklock, Life of Lord Abercrombie, Life of William Tytler Esq, Review of the
Principal Proceedings of the Parliament of 1784, Poems Dramatic Pieces